From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Rose Subject: Re: Maildrop doesn't filter or log filters Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 01:58:42 -0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3EB376B2.5090007@shaw.ca> References: <00da01c31037$5ffe1a80$0300000a@iih.usyd.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: sean@tcob1.net Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Speaking from experience (sorry, should have posted my found fix on this a while ago), maildrop may not log that itself, but in the /var/log/maillog file you can find its output to stderr that indicated a permissions problem. Once i found this, all of it fell into place. sean@tcob1.net wrote: > "James Turnbull" writes: > > >>sean@tcob1.net wrote: >> >>>On 26.04.2003 09:19:10, Chris Rose wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Here's how i have things: I'm using postfix as a local MTA, and it's >>>>calling maildrop with >>>>mailbox_command = /usr/bin/maildrop >>>> >>>>I have only one user that receives mail on my system, and that user >>>>account has/d a ~/.mailfilter file. The problem is, whenever that >>>>file exists, no mail whatsoever makes it into my Maildir. I've >>>>tested this - i send a message to myself, and i receive nothing as >>>>long as there's a mailfilter file existing. As soon as i rename it, >>>>i'm fine. >>>> >>> >>>What are the permissions on the .mailfilter file, they must be 0600. >>>I had problems like this and this caused problems similar >> >>Look in your mail logs / syslogs. Postfix / Maildrop is usualy pretty good >>about telling you what the problem is. >> > > > I cannot comment about Postfix as I never used it but Maildrop will not write to a log file if there is a permissions problem. > > Sean > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs